There are multiplke issues in the lvm init scripts, the most severe makes lvm bail during startup Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. add lvm to some runlevel 2. see that script fails to start lvm Actual Results: lvm does not start Expected Results: lvm starts as expected without any errors /proc/self/fd/0: unrecognized option '--config' Error during parsing of command line. * Failed to setup the LVM The line producing the problem is: printf "%b\n" "${lvm_commands}" | $lvm_path /proc/self/fd/0 --config "${config}" >/dev/null Let's look at this: echo "help" | /sbin/lvm /proc/self/fd/0 No such command. Try 'help'. But: echo "help" | /sbin/lvm lvm> help Available lvm commands: Use 'lvm help <command>' for more information ... - So it seems that lvm won't accept the STDIN file descriptor from proc as valid input file. Additionally the parameter --sysinit is used, which should only be used during early system init (i.e. in initramfs) when there's no RW root fs available (or the final root not yet mounted).
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 617578 ***
